'Soft money' donations up 24% to N.Y. political accounts

Limitless cash for campaigns cited for reform

11:09 PM,
May 22, 2013

Written by

Joseph Spector
Journal Albany bureau

Contributions to New York's limitless campaign accounts soared 24 percent over six years, a new report found.

New York has a porous campaign-finance system and among the highest contribution limits in the country. It also has something else: housekeeping accounts set up by political parties that can accept a limitless amount of cash.